The Dow Jones industrial average swept past 14,000 for the first time Tuesday after a relatively tame inflation report gave investors reason to extend an extraordinary Wall Street rally. But it closed shy of the 14,000 mark – up 20.57, or 0.1 percent, to 13,971.55. The Nasdaq rose 0.6 percent, and the S&P 500 fell slightly.

The gains follow the Labor Department’s report that inflation at the wholesale level fell in June but heated up more than expected when excluding often volatile food and energy prices. The producer price index slipped 0.2 percent in June but the so-called core figure, which takes out food and energy, rose 0.3 percent. Without an increase in cars and light trucks, however, core inflation would have increased a more moderate 0.1 percent.

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